RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Brown's observation on the natural family of plants called Compositæ, 1816. CUL-DAR109.A66. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe 4.2021. RN2
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Darwin refers to Robert Brown's 'Some observations on the natural family of plants called compositæ', read February 6 and 20, 1816. Published in Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. 12, (1818): 76-101.
Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).
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Linn Tran XII p 98. Brown explains by general laws of opening of flower why female flowers are generally at the base of the males. - & hence it follows that where expansion is descendant instead of ascendent, the female flowers are at the top as in Poterium, & are none compound flower of Ricinus
Priority of development connected with perfection –
The more perfect stamina, then which by their position are known not to abort in certain species, are the most perfect, as is known by their bursting earlier –
I don't quite understand all this. – but say it can be predicted which stamina will abort.
Abortion
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